README.md

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annotations_creators:
  - crowdsourced
language_creators:
  - crowdsourced
language:
  - ar
license:
  - cc-by-nc-4.0
multilinguality: []
pretty_name: MASC
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Dataset Card for MASC: MASSIVE ARABIC SPEECH CORPUS

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information
  • Contributions

Dataset Description

• Homepage: https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/masc-massive-arabic-speech-corpus
• Repository:
• Paper: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/e1qb-jv46
• Leaderboard:
• Point of Contact:

Dataset Summary

This corpus is a dataset that contains 1,000 hours of speech sampled at 16~kHz and crawled from over 700 YouTube channels. MASC is multi-regional, multi-genre, and multi-dialect dataset that is intended to advance the research and development of Arabic speech technology with the special emphasis on Arabic speech recognition

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

Multi-dialect Arabic

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

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Data Fields

masc_dev

• speech
• sampling_rate
• target_text (label)

Data Splits

masc_dev

• train: 100
• test: 40

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]

Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Annotation process

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

Additional Information

Note: this is a small development set for testing.

Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

Licensing Information

CC 4.0

Citation Information

[More Information Needed]

Contributions

Mohammad Al-Fetyani, Muhammad Al-Barham, Gheith Abandah, Adham Alsharkawi, Maha Dawas, August 18, 2021, "MASC: Massive Arabic Speech Corpus", IEEE Dataport, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/e1qb-jv46.